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LANG v. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

No. 06-1515.

472 F.3d 493 (2006)

Sharon LANG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 28, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Hememway (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Frederick J. Artwick, Sidley Austin LLP, Linda M. Doyle (argued), McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

Sharon Lang called the FBI to proclaim that executives of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation were lying to the Federal Reserve in order to obtain a "gold bond rating" plus a federal loan on easy terms. The FBI was unimpressed — if only because the Fed does not extend credit to private foundations or rate their bonds. Lang's story had been based on nothing other than office gossip, apparently having its genesis in stories in...

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